Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina has urged engineers to work out the strategies so that Bangladesh can achieve maximum progress at lower cost.
The Prime Minister said today's world is dependent on technologies, and newer development strategies are being worked out. She stressed the need for utilising the new strategies to take the country forward.
She also urged engineers to concentrate more on research for innovating newer technologies so that Bangladesh can take proper development strategies suiting the local soil, water and climate.
The Prime Minister gave the directives while inaugurating the four-day 59th convention of the Institution of Engineers, Bangladesh (IEB) in Dhaka on Saturday, report UNB and BSS.
"We want you to pay a greater attention to research in the engineering sector...we'll have to innovate newer technologies through research so that we can take development strategies that will suit our country's soil, people, climate and all other things," she said.
Sheikh Hasina also emphasised that local climate, geographical location, soil, water and people will have to be considered in case of taking development plans.
“You (engineers) are playing the biggest role in implementing our development projects. So, you’ll have to adopt development plans keeping in mind environment and ecology,” she said.
“Whenever we take the plan of a project we should bear in mind that arable land and water bodies must not be damaged in anyway,” she added.
Putting emphasis on saving the rivers, the Prime Minister said all the civilisations in the world had been built on riverside.
Chaired by IEB President Engineer Mohammad Abdus Sabur, the inaugural session was addressed, among others, its General Secretary Engineer Khandaker Manjur Murshed and EIB's Dhaka Centre Chairman Waliullah Sikder and its secretary Engineer Shahadat Hossain Shiplu Prince.
The theme of this year's convention is 'Engineering Excellent: Earth to Space'.
Seminars, memorial speeches, reception to martyred engineers' families, reception to foreign guests and cultural programme will be held during the four-day event arranged by the EIB Dhaka Centre.
The IEB started its journey on May 7, 1948.